MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries game details. Updated December 9, 2019: MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is set to release tomorrow morning on the Epic Games Store. We've also updated the system requirements test to reflect the specs listed on the EGS webpage: your video card will need to be at least a GeForce GTX 770 or a Radeon R9 280X.

Before buying MechWarrior Online for PC don’t forget to compare system requirements, provided by game developers, with your system configuration. Usually, minimum system requirements mean the configuration, that will allow game to start and normally work on the minimum quality settings. If your PC reaches the recommended requirements, you can have a stable gameplay with high quality settings. If you like to play on ultra settings, you must have hardware better, then specified by developers in recommended system requirements.

You can find official MechWarrior Online system requirements from developers on this page. If you think, there is any mistake on the page, feel free to write to us on the contacts page Bejeweled blitz new version.

Minimum system requirements:

• OS: Windows Vista 32-bit
• CPU: Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz or Athlon II X2 245e
• RAM (memory): 4 GB
• Videocard: GeForce 8800GT, Radeon HD 5600/5700
• HDD: 4 GB free space

Recommended system requirements:

• OS: Windows 7 SP-1 64-Bit
• CPU: Core i3-2500 or AMD Athlon II X4 650
• RAM (memory): 8 GB
• Videocard: GeForce GTX 285, Radeon HD 5830
• HDD: 4 GB free space

Tekken 6. Aside from comparing your PC configuration with MechWarrior Online system requirements don’t forget to always have updated video drivers. You must always download only the latest versions of stable drivers – try not to use beta versions, because they might have some bug, not yet found and solved by developers.

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Poor performance on modern systems

General information

Official game site (archived)

BattleTech Wiki - A massive wiki for everything BattleTech related

MechWariorsUnited - A community with patches and multiplayer maps

Mech3Mod - A community with mods

MechWarrior3.org - A huge fansite for MechWarrior 3 (archived)

• 1Availability
• 2Essential improvements
• 3Game data
• 6Audio settings
• 7Network
• 8Issues fixed
  • 8.2Adding compatibility for modern Windows
• 9Other information

Availability[edit]

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

This game is not available digitally.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

The latest patch for the game (v1.2) can be downloaded from the Files section.

The patch is available in English, French, and German.

Enable High Resolutions with Launcher[edit]

A launcher for the game that enables support for widescreen and high resolutions (beyond the 1024 x 768 supported officially in the game) is available here. The launcher must be set to run in Windows 7 compatibility mode in order to work.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

Save game data location[edit]

Video settings[edit]

Input settings[edit]

Audio settings[edit]

Localizations

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Issues fixed[edit]

Installing under modern Windows[edit]

For many people, the version of Installshield which MechWarrior 3 uses refuses to start, and instead just hangs. This appears to be caused by conflicting programs running in the background. Singling out which program this is can be quite difficult. A simple workaround is to create a new account with administrative privileges, and install MechWarrior 3 under that.^{[citation needed]}

Alternatively, open task manager, go to details tab, right click setup.exe, click 'analyse wait chain', tick both boxes to end both processes. Repeat these steps until setup launches.

Adding compatibility for modern Windows[edit]

The following methods apply to both MechWarrior 3 and the Pirate's Moon expansion pack (except for the official patch step, as none were ever released for Pirate's Moon).

Method 1[edit]

This method fixes most rendering, FPS, and loading issues with the game. Also helps with 'rainbow colours' artifacts in game'.

Method 2[edit]

Use this method only if dgVoodoo cannot be run properly.

Fix bouncing APCs/AMS not working[edit]

Use a tool like Rivatuner to limit the game's framerate to 30fps. Enabling V-Sync helps too.

Game won't start (Windows 10)[edit]

If the game won't start and you encounter an application error message

Variable game speed[edit]

Game speed may constantly shift between too fast and too slow.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Middleware[edit]

System requirements[edit]

Notes

1. ↑SafeDisc retail DRMdoes not work on Windows 10^[1] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
2. ↑When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore (more details).

References

1. ↑Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
2. ↑Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
3. ↑3D Audio Immersion - Old News: September 1997